......Several dozen generations of barn cats, some of whom were tame and some of whom were totally feral. Four dogs in the past, two at present--Baron's the unpopular family dog (rottweiler mix), while Lark belongs to me yet is the household idol. She's also my main companion, since it's kinda lonely staying with my grandma. She keeps me sane.
Or safely insane, at least. She's an Australian Shepherd--just over a year old. *huggles* And she's beautiful.
Also generations and generations of goats and sheep. I was always in charge of raising the baby goats, but my little brothers are taking over. *a little sad* And the sheep belong to me. This has been the case for several years now, and I'm still not done gloating.
Nn, and several generations of chicks, which grew up and became someone else's problem, after I got promoted out of the chicken coop and into the barn. On a permanent basis, instead of being in charge of both kids/lambs and chickens.
Oh. And the rabbits. I was breeding rabbits from when I was eight or nine. Eventually they got so inbred they wouldn't reproduce and we just butchered the last of 'em. The moral? Don't leave a ten-year-old in charge of the breeding program. She won't pay enough attention to degrees of interrelation.....Oh, and the neighborhood was infested with escapees, which was kinda interesting. Gave us an excuse to run all over the neighbor's machinery-inhabited yard, trying to catch those blasted rabbits....and we succeeded a lot more often than you'd think.
Add to that various goldfish, which grew huge in the horse trough once they got too big for the aquarium; wild snakes, which our parents made us release more or less quickly; and various other livestock, which generally went the way of most livestock: the freezer. Yummy.....
Wow. We've had a lot of animals. That's just the general overview, too.
Ah, forgot the four brothers--companion animals, a little tough to deal with at times, but still nice to have around. Although the eldest is at college, and we only see him when we visit our grandma. So lately I've been seeing lots of him and absolutely nothing of the other three.
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Takahashi Miyuki?! T_T